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J. K. GRUBE.

WELL REFRIGERATOR. v No. 338,664. Patented Mar. '23, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN K. GRUBE, OF NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

WELL-REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,664, dated March 23, 1886.

Application filed September 16, 1885. Serial No. 177,246. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN K. GRUBE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Bloomfield, in the county of Perry and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wel1-Refrigerators; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention is related to such refrigerators or safes as are used without ice, the receptacles for the food being lowered for cooling into a cellar, cistern, or Well, or into an excavation specially prepared for them.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention, Figure 1 being a front elevation of it, the top being open, and portions of the front doors being broken away to expose the mechanism within. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the invention.

The various parts of the refrigerator are referred to by letters, similar letters denoting corresponding parts in the views.

The letter A indicates the frame inclosing the upper section of the refrigerator. It has the front doors, a a, and the hinged top B, through which are two holes, I) b, for the ventilators, to be described hereinafter.

A is the lower section of the refrigerator, and extends into the cooling-chamber below.

0 is a shaft journaled in the frame A, and is provided with two ratchets, c and c, and a crank, D. Two receptacles or closets, E E, are hung to the shaft 0, by cords or chains (1 d, in such a manner that when the crank D is turned one chain is Wound upon the shaft and the other is unwound from it, thus raising one closet while the other is being lowered. The closets E E are covered with wire-cloth, and are furnished with doors and shelves, as may be desired.

F F are double trap-doors, through notches in the edges of which the cords (Z (Z pass when the closets are let down. The doors F F are hinged so that they open from each other when the closet ascends to the upper section, A, and

incline against opposite sides of the closet.

When the closet descends, they close over it, the chains d d assisting in this automatic action by friction in the notches mentioned above.

G G are pipes or tubes which extend from the cooling-chamber through the frame A and the openings 1) b to the outer air. The movement of the closets up and down promotes a free circulation of air through these ventilators.

For family or store use, the section A of my refrigerator may be placed upon the floor, and an opening be made through the floor for the section A in the cellar.

If one closet only is to be used, aweight may be attached in place of the other closet, as when thus balanced awoman or child can easily operate th e Windlass and lock it at any point by means of the two ratchets c c, which engage the cogs from opposite sides of the shaft 0.

I am aware that refrigerators have been made of two parts with doors between, and that they have been provided with a Windlass, to which is attached a cupboard or closets. This I do not broadly claim.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of the sections A A, the doors F F between them, the Windlass O, the two cords, d d, the closets E E, and the ratchets c c, as set forth.

2. A refrigerator having the hinged cover B, provided with the holes I) b, in combination with the internal tubes, G G, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN K. GRUBE.

\Vitnesses:

THOMAS Suron, J ENNIE A. POTTER. 

